A String of Flowers, Untied-- Love Poems from the Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu is well known as the author of the brilliant Tale of Genji, the romance that has given her distinction as the world's first novelist. Yet in eleventh-century Japan, the highest form of literary effort was not the narrative, but rather poetry: the 31-syllable tanka. Murasaki Shikibu's readers would have been most enthralled by the elegant exchanges of tanka threaded through the Tale. Here for the first time the poems themselves are highlighted in Japanese and English translation by Jane Reichhold and Hatsue Kawamura, with brief expositions of the story of Genji as it unfolds. This beautiful book will be welcomed by fans of classical poetry and The Tale of the Genji. --Liza Dalby.
PoetryAsian
RELEASED2003
PUBLISHERStone Bridge Press
LENGTH237
LANGUAGEEN
Japanese novelist and poet
A String of Flowers, Untied-- Love Poems from the Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu is well known as the author of the brilliant Tale of Genji, the romance that has given her distinction as the world's first novelist. Yet in eleventh-century Japan, the highest form of literary effort was not the narrative, but rather poetry: the 31-syllable tanka. Murasaki Shikibu's readers would have been most enthralled by the elegant exchanges of tanka threaded through the Tale. Here for the first time the poems themselves are highlighted in Japanese and English translation by Jane Reichhold and Hatsue Kawamura, with brief expositions of the story of Genji as it unfolds. This beautiful book will be welcomed by fans of classical poetry and The Tale of the Genji. --Liza Dalby.
PoetryAsian
RELEASED2003
PUBLISHERStone Bridge Press
LENGTH237
LANGUAGEEN
Japanese novelist and poet
